Hello Mumbai and Elephanta Island Flight to MumbaiIndia- we’ve wanted to go for ages and now we are sitting in an Air Canada Boeing 777-200LR plane, awaiting departure in Toronto for our 15 hour direct flight to Mumbai.The flight is full and a screaming toddler is sitting a few rows back. If he doesnt sleep, this fifteen hour flight will seem like thirty.I’m tired. The last couple of weeks were …
I slept through most of our Copa Airlines flight between Montevideo and Panama City. I was awake when we made an unscheduled stop in Cali, Columbia due to needing more fuel because of heavy headwinds. Then we finished our flight to Panama City arriving an hour late at 8:00am. We put our carry-on bags in luggage storage and hired a friendly cab driver to take us touring for the …
Our last day in Montevideo. We arrived at Independence Plaza for our 11am walking tour. We walked through many of the places we were at yesterday, but this time we got the history behind them. In the Plaza Zabala, the quaker parakeets were extra active and noisy while the guide was speaking. He then mentioned that they are Uruguay’s national plague because they eat the farmers’ crops. There is …
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Today we took a 8:30 am bus from Colonia to Montevideo through green agricultural lands. The trip took about 2.5 hours. There were cattle everywhere which is not surprising since both Argentinian and Uruguay cuisine is centered around meat. From the Montevideo bus terminal we grabbed a cab to our hostel (El Viajero Hostel), dropped off our luggage and headed to the Sunday Market which apparently is a must …